Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Society was created not by men but by women

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

I don't fight people for fun.

If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.